Nicole by OPI Wel-Kim To My World - Swatches and Review

  Finally made a bit of decent swatching time for myself the last week or so!  I am still a smidge behind but almost caught up.  Here are six new shades from Nicole by OPI, the Wel-Kim to My World collection for Spring 2012.  As always, swatches shown no base coat, with top coat.

Others Pale by Kim-parison

Outdoors, natural light

This polish is a slightly off-white creme with the slightest touch of rosy pink.  I really like it as an alternative to super bright white cremes, but I found it to be just a bit tacky and streaky on application - whites are always a bit tough.  However it evened out nicely with three coats.

Kim Konfidential

Outdoors, natural light

 Yellowish beige creme.  I think this has a bit too much yellow to look quite right with my skin tone perhaps?  I have seen it looking pretty nice on some other people though.  Smooth application, three coats.

Lights, Kim-era, Action!

Outdoors, natural light

Shimmery silver-white with a sort of opalescent glow.  This one has some duochrome in the bottle, which is not quite as apparent on the nails and totally absent in pictures.  This took three thin coats for full opacity as well.

Up and Kim-ing Pink

Outdoors, natural light

Light pink creme - fairly sure this is a near (or perfect) dupe to OPI Pink Friday (let me know if you want a comparison).   Three thin coats for full opacity

Her Kim's The Sun

Outdoors, natural light

 This glitter top coat is full of gorgeous golden iridescent small glitter particles.  This is one coat over Up and Kim-ing Pink, but it would look great over pretty much any shade.

Nothing Kim-pares to Blue

Outdoors, natural light

 Yay, a blue!  This is a periwinkle blue shimmer which took three coats to reach opacity.  This kind of reminds me a bit of I Don't Give a Rotterdam from OPI Holland, I may have to do a comparison soon.  However I think it is a bit brighter.

Overall Review

For the most part I really liked the colors in this collection.  I had a bit of trouble with the formula on a couple of these, and I would have preferred two-coaters (each polish shown is three coats, except for the glitter), however the colors are fun and very springy.  Some of these seem to be similar to what we have seen before and others are a bit more original.  I am growing a bit tired of the whole Kardashian theme, honestly... but I suppose the names don't really matter as long as the polish is pretty, right?  :)

More Nicole by OPI Spring 2012 collections up later this week!

 DISCLOSURE: The polishes featured in this post  were provided to Polishology by OPI for review purposes.  This is an honest and independent review and was in no way influenced by the company.